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Compiling Windows on DOS? (Developers)

posted by RayeR Homepage, CZ, 12.02.2021, 19:04

> Why on earth would you want to recompile Windows 2003?
Because some people still (want/need/like)use older Windows for whatever reason and they want to do some specific modifications to improve/bugfix it. One example is ACPI.SYS driver has problem running on newer MBs with new ACPI (no legal way to run old Win on such systems) so some people modified it to make it working - by binary hack and later by recompiling from sources, so God bless the leakers :)

> And why on earth on anything else than the original compiler on the original operating system?
I see no point here too. The windows NT build environment is not just CL compiler but a bunch of tools that have to be ported. Well if one don't want to compile it under Windows he may try ReactOS or Wine but not DOS. It would take extreme amount of time. On Windows I had compile time of whole stuff ~6 hours and I belive it would be 10x more under DOS...

> Apart from that, it is obviously illegal to roll your own Windows 2003.
Yeaah :-D

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